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At the MWC 2018 tradeshow in Barcelona all the notable smartphone manufacturers get together and show their latest and greatest. This time, though what really should be in the limelight is Android Oreo (Go Edition) - a lightweight version of the world's favourite Mobile Operating System.

WebAssembly allows writing browser applications in any language that is strongly typed languages. These include ones like C, C++, Java and more recently Rust. Web developers often use dynamically typed languages like JavaScript, PHP and Python.

Oracle is making big changes to the Java ecosystem it acquired as a part of the Sun Microsystems deal in 2010. Since that time the ecosystem of Java has continued to thrive, you could say it is experience a renaissance of sorts.

Building communications and computing technology is a painstakingly long task. The route from initial idea will typically take years first to spec, implementation and finally mainstream adoption. WebAssembly is now on this route, it is already usable - but the official specification work continues.

In January 2018 the world was shaken by Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Fastforward to midway through to February, and the news have fizzled. Software and Hardware manufacturers have continued mitigating the issues. But now researchers have unveiled new exploits with the "Prime" suffix.

Salon.com is a premium online content provider. Having been in the online publication business since 1995 the publication has seen a lot. Companies like Google and Facebook have generated huge profits from online advertising, but content creators like Salon have not been as lucky.

HTML forms continue to be the bane of existance for developers around the globe. Even with contemporary declarative UI libraries like React, building complex wizards and so on can become a living nightmare.